A research group from the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has proposed a new strategy to precisely manipulate interlayer stacking ...

Photodiodes are widely used devices based on semiconducting materials that can convert light into electrical current. These ...

(a) The 2D materials were transferred to the in situ mechanical testing device using wet transfer and dry transfer techniques. (b) AFM nanoindentation mechanical testing of 2D material, the 2D ...

Kagome lattice is compoed of a network of corner-sharing triangles and can host Dirac Fermions, the flat bands and the van Hove singularities. When combined with magnetism, plenty of topological ...

Two-dimensional (2D) materials, in general, allow the realization of unique quantum phenomena unattainable in the common ...

Illustration of a moiré pattern that emerges upon stacking and rotating two sheets of bilayer graphene. Correlated electronic states with magnetic ordering emerge in twisted double bilayer graphene ...

Researchers converted layered MXenes into chemically bonded solids using metal intercalation, boosting thermal stability and performance in zinc-iodine batteries. (Nanowerk Spotlight) Two-dimensional ...

2D materials such as graphene, transition metal dichalcogenides, boron nitride, and layered double hydroxides possess several advantageous properties that make them well-suited for environmental ...

The development of 2D materials has been driven by the need for materials that can operate at the nanoscale while maintaining high performance. Boron, in its 2D form, has shown exceptional stability ...